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   From: deedlydee@earthlink.net   
      
      
      
   bwalker wrote:   
      
   > " No, I   
   > don't think the kid got off easy and I don't think your info of "tens of   
   > thousands per song" has any credibility (Come on, you download 1 LP and you   
   > have to pay $100,000? Even the RIAA isn't that much of thief).   
      
   That kid wasn't downloading, she was providing content on the web for others to   
   download. The figure I'm quoting comes from the Boston Globe article I read   
   and mentioned figures as high as $150,000 per song -- I was actually   
   underestimating. We're not talking about some guy downloading an mp3, we're   
   talking about people who make illicit copies of artists' work and make it   
   available on the web for others to download, sometimes even charging a fee.   
   I'm not saying everyone who does this is automatically going to get fined the   
   maximum amount, I'm sure it will be pretty much case by case. But I'm also   
   sure that the intent is to reduce the ridiculous amount of theft and make it   
   quite clear, even to people like you who can't seem to figure it out from your   
   own moral training, that theft is wrong and punishable. And not to put too   
   fine a point on it, but I'm not the one you have to convince.   
      
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